Abstract: In this paper a program to set up a human talent management for scientific research and technological development in the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico (IPN) is proposed, seeking to integrate graduate students from the IPN into the National Researchers System (SNI, Spanish acronym). Clearly, for Institutions of Higher Education in Mexico, incorporating their researchers to the SNI favors not only the scientific and technological productivity of the institution, but also allows the incorporation and consolidation their academic programs at the National Quality Graduate Program (PNPC, Spanish acronym), sponsored by the National Counsil for Science and Technology (CONACyT, Spanish acronym). We propose then the coordination of the Institutional Program of Research Training in the IPN (PIFI-IPN) with the National Researchers System (SNI) as Program of Human Talent Management, being the main goal to incorporate the IPN graduate students to SNI once their research training has been successfully completed. At the same time, the objective is to impulse SNI researchers to improve their performance to ascend to the higher levels of the system. In short, this proposal consists in two phases, an initial one starting with the student’s admission to a technical high school program at the IPN as an apprentice researcher, until the fulfillment
of a doctorate program, concluding as a pre-candidate researcher; and a second one beginning with the initial level in the SNI structure to the appointment of emeritus researcher. In this framework, we draw our view about fostering research as a collective activity focusing research training to create and consolidate research groups participating in academic graduate programs aiming to increasing their academic quality.